Surname meaning for "George"

English, Welsh, French, South Indian, etc.: from the personal name
George, Greek Georgios, from an adjectival form,
georgios ‘rustic’, of georgos ‘farmer’. This
became established as a personal name in classical times through its
association with the fashion for pastoral poetry. Its popularity in
western Europe increased at the time of the Crusades, which brought
greater contact with the Orthodox Church, in which several saints and
martyrs of this name are venerated, in particular a saint believed to
have been martyred at Nicomedia in ad 303, who, however, is
at best a shadowy figure historically. Nevertheless, by the end of the
Middle Ages St. George had become associated with an unhistorical
legend of dragon-slaying exploits, which caught the popular
imagination throughout Europe, and he came to be considered the patron
saint of England among other places. As an American family
name, this has absorbed cognates from other European languages,
including German

Georg and Greek patronymics such as
Georgiou, Georgiadis, Georgopoulos, and the
status name Papageorgiou ‘priest George’. In English-speaking
countries, this surname is also found as an Anglicized form of Greek
surnames such as Hatzigeorgiou ‘George the Pilgrim’ and
patronymics such as Giorgopoulos ‘son of George’. JK, NN It
is used as a given name among Christians in India, and in the U.S. has
come to be used as a surname among families from southern India. RM2ANCHOR NAMEView more Surname facts for George